by Peter Goodhall | Nov 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
SpinSat comprises a 19 inch diameter sphere, with a mass of 55 kg and 4 antennas equal distance around the equator. It is intended to be a tumbling satellite with single axis momentum wheel and multiple micro-thrusters. It aims to test new technology micro-thrusters...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
PhoneSat v2 is a technology demonstration mission intended to increase the functional capabilities of PhoneSat v1 and demonstrate complete satellite functionally in a low cost package. The satellite is built around the Nexus S smartphone which will be running the...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 26, 2012 | Daily Updates
On Monday, November 26 at 12:10 CET Swedish Radio broadcast a show about the Maker Movement that included an item on Hojun Song DS1SBO and the OSSI CubeSat that is planned to launch on a Soyuz-2-1b rocket into a 575 km 63° inclination orbit in April 2013. The item...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
On Friday, November 16, CEO and Chief Designer of SpaceX, Elon Musk was the guest of honor at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London to present a lecture entitled ‘SpaceX and the future of space exploration’. The packed lecture was also notable in that...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 25, 2012 | Daily Updates
While radio amateurs use CubeSats for communications Glasgow based Alba Space is planning to use them for Space Burials. Alba Space say they aim to use CubeSats to carry cremated ashes into Space and their longer term aims include helping open access to Space. The...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
Mike Richards G4WNC was lucky enough to get serial number 0046 from the first batch of the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle Pro+ LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF Software Defined Radio. He has written a four page review of the SDR that has just been published in the December issue of Radio...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
Dave Mellor G4EWK tested his new FUNcube Dongle Pro+ Software Defined Radio by receiving the NOAA 19 weather satellite. The FUNcube Dongle Pro+ LF/MF/HF/VHF/UHF SDR was developed for educational outreach as part of the ground segment for the FUNcube satellite. A...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
In this video Mike Johnson of NanoRacks gives an overview of the NanoLab Experiment to the group assembled for the International Space Station Research Competition Workshop Friday, October 5, 2012 at the Florida Solar Energy Center. Space Florida and NanoRacks have...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 23, 2012 | Daily Updates
The minutes of the recent meetings of the RSGB Spectrum Forum and the ETCC are now available on the RSGB website. Spectrum Forum minutes and reports http://www.rsgb.org/committees/spectrumforum/spectrum-forum-meeting-minutes.php RSGB Emerging Technology Co-ordination...
by Peter Goodhall | Nov 21, 2012 | Daily Updates
In this video Nick Sweet of Concordia’s Student-run astronautical engineering group Space Concordia describes his teams winning CubeSat entry and provides an insightful analysis of the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge at the 2012 Canadian Space Summit. The...
